StarBurn Software

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StarBurn CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Toolkit:

Getting Started
April 18, 2016

StarBurn Software
www.starburnsoftware.com

Copyright Rocket Division Software 2001-2016. All rights reserved.

Copyright StarBurn Software 2009-2016. All rights reserved.

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INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 4
KEY BENEFITS ..................................................................................................... 5
KEY FEATURES .................................................................................................... 7
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS .................................................................................. 11
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS................................................................................... 12
CONTACTS........................................................................................................ 13

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COPYRIGHT
Copyright Rocket Division Software 2001-2016. All rights reserved.
Copyright StarBurn Software 2009-2016. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written
consent of Rocket Division Software and StarBurn Software.

TRADEMARKS
StarBurn, Rocket Division Software, StarBurn Software and the StarBurn
and the Rocket Division Software logos are trademarks of Rocket Division
Software and StarBurn Software which may be registered in some jurisdictions. All
other trademarks are owned by their respective owners.

CHANGES
The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change
without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of
this document to assure its accuracy, Rocket Division Software and StarBurn
Software assumes no liability resulting from errors or omissions in this document,
or from the use of the information contained herein. Rocket Division Software
and StarBurn Software reserves the right to make changes in the product design
without reservation and without notification to its users.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND SERVICES

If you have questions about installing or using this software, check this and other
documents first - you will find answers to most of your questions here or there. If
you need further assistance, please contact us.

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INTRODUCTION
StarBurn is an advanced CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burning, grabbing and
mastering software development kit for Microsoft Windows. StarBurn SDK
enables everyone to add reliable, high-performance CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD
burning capabilities to any custom application in just a few minutes. The SDK
supports virtually all available burning hardware (including modern high-capacity
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD devices) and provides a flexible, solid framework for your
application regardless of development environment or target platform. StarBurn
takes care of complex issues associated with the burning process such as
handling specific optical media types, thread management, intermediate caching
and non-standard device commands: allowing you to focus on application
development instead of implementation details.

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KEY BENEFITS
Burning Hardware: All MMC (Multi-Media Command Set) compatible
CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD devices are supported. StarBurn deals with them in socalled "generic" mode. This means you don't need to get an updated version of
our software to support a brand new burner. CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,
BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM media are supported, including modern
high-capacity double layer DVD+R, dual layer DVD-R, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
Supported OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (Millennium Edition),
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista,
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 8,
Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 are supported. Both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Development Environments: StarBurn supports Microsoft Visual C/C++,
Microsoft VB.NET and C#, Java, Borland C++ Builder and Delphi. We do provide
our customers with both console and GUI code samples. So you can either trace
tiny console applications source code or you can use our sophisticated GUI
samples as skeletons for your own commercial applications.
Advanced Support and Customization Services: With StarBurn SDK you always
get a year of FREE support and updates. You also get access to our public support
forum where it's clearly visible how fast we respond, how helpful we are and
how we treat our customers. Customization services are available at an
additional charge to ensure your StarBurn project is a breeze.
Embedded DVD-ROM Emulator: Our SDK is the only one shipped with a
redistributable DVD-ROM emulator. The DVD-ROM emulator allows you to
master your data to a file on the hard disk, verify content and apply physical
burning much later, even on a different machine.
Network Burning: StarBurn is one of the few optical media SDKs with network
burning support available. Your application would not require the presence of
physical CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burning hardware installed on the same
machine where the application runs. You can "map" a remote device located on

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another continent (using an IP connection between client and server) and burn
to the remote device with StarBurn as though it was real hardware attached to
computer. This means an expensive high-capacity Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burner or
DVD autoloader could be shared similar to a network printer.
Years of Experience: We have been distributing our software products
exclusively through the Internet since 2003. In 2003, we released our first
version of the StarBurn SDK with support for DVD recorders and UDF file system
mastering. Our software development kit is currently being used by hundreds of
companies (including Fortune 500) to add optical media recording capabilities to
their applications. We have customers from all over the world, including North
and South America, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, England, France, Italy,
Scandinavia, Russia, Australia and New Zealand, with the majority of our
customers located in the United States.
100% Royalty Free: There are no royalty fees for redistributing software
applications written using the StarBurn SDK. You can sell an unlimited number of
copies of your application without paying any additional royalty fees.

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KEY FEATURES
StarBurn SDK is redistributable as a Dynamic-Link Library (DLL), ActiveX
(OCX) or static library (LIB) built-in into your application executable. We
don't force our customers to use a single hard coded approach. A DLL is
generally easier to maintain and updates to new StarBurn versions are
trivial (only core StarBurn.dll should be replaced). An OCX is a slightly easier
to program and a LIB is treated as more "secure".
OSTA UDF compatible file system mastering (UDF 1.02, 1.50, 2.01, 2.5, 2.6).
Files larger then 2 GB and with names up to 2048 characters long now
could be stored on optical media. You don't need to use third-party tools to
split your huge database backups or rename very long file names before
burning them. These are things of the past with StarBurn SDK. UDF is also
completely UNICODE compatible.
ISO9660 file system mastering (including Joliet Unicode name extensions).
The most compatible file system virtually every machine can read.
So-called bridge file system (ISO9660/UDF for DVD-Video creation)
mastering. StarBurn creates a bridge file system which is DVD-Video
compatible. Such media could be read with both stand-alone DVD players
and older Windows 95 and DOS boxes. And yes, our burning toolkit makes
DVD-Video and DVD-Audio images that pass PHILIPS DVD-Video Verifier
without mastering errors. This means DVD's created with the StarBurn SDK
are playable in any stand-alone DVD player.
Session import (appending already recorded CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD
media). In this mode you can use the same media for sequential recording
daily. New data would perfectly co-exist with previously recorded data. The
only limitation you'd hit is physical media capacity. Ideal solution for
custom backups!
Audio content processing. StarBurn SDK can store audio tracks as WAV
(uncompressed) and WMA (compressed Windows Media Audio) files.
StarBurn is also capable of burning WAV and WMA/WMV/ASF/MP3/OGG
files to create re-mastered Audio CDs. Please note StarBurn can handle
compressed audio streams on-the-fly. This means it can burn an Audio CD
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from WMA/WMV/ASF/MP3/OGG files without de-compressing them and

storing an intermediate copy on your hard disk. This is MUCH faster if
compared with doing everything in two steps: first decoding and then
actual burning.
Track-At-Once, Session-At-Once (CUE SHEET) and Disc-At-Once (RAW)
recording modes. In Track-At-Once mode everything is handled by the drive
itself. The application just passes 2048 bytes/sector streams (data) or 2352
bytes/sector streams (audio). With Disk-At-Once the application creates a
whole raw virtual CD image itself and writes with 2448 (DAO96) or 2368
(DAO16) bytes/sector streams. Track-At-Once is the most compatible mode
and preferred for data (the only mode to create multi-session CDs) and
Disk-At-Once allows you to create gap-less Audio CDs, add CD-Text and
CD+G information and some additional features. Session-At-Once is close to
Disc-At-Once with the exception it does not require to generate lead-in and
lead-out manually and allows programmer to select source data stream
format.
El Torito (bootable CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD). With this feature it's trivial
to create custom recovery optical media. Use CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD as
a very big floppy boot disk. It's even possible to create own Windows
installation running directly from CD or DVD media. As an example, BartPE
uses StarBurn SDK to create custom Windows PE bootable media.
Full CD-Text support. This feature allows you to store artist/album/track
names in the CD lead-in area. CD-Text capable stand-alone CD/DVD players
would display this information during the play operation. Your mastered CD
discs would not be nameless from today!
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (Millennium Edition), Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista,
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 8,
Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 are supported. Both 32-bit and 64-bit.
ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) layer for Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/2012/8/2016/10 takes care of supporting
Serial and Parallel SCSI and ATA (ATAPI), parallel port, USB (1.x/2.0/3.0) and
FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices. So when developing your own CD/DVD/BluRay/HD-DVD burning application you can stick with a single binary that
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would be cross-compatible between different Windows operating systems.

Our ASPI layer is redistributable (no installation limitations, no royalty fees
are required). If you don't care about Windows 95/98/Me any more you
can stick with the SPTI or SPTD transport. If you use SPTI or SPTD you don't
need the ASPI layer at all.
Multiple CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD devices can be used for burning and
grabbing at the same time. No artificial limitations. The only real ones are
your CPU horsepower and the amount of free RAM available.
Support for hardware buffer underrun protection schemes. BURN-Proof,
JustLink, Power-Burn, SafeBurn, SeamlessLink etc will prevent your
CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD media from being spoiled with occasional hard
disk activity during burn process.
We do support "over-burning" for 90 and 99 minute CD-R media. With our
Disc-At-Once burning engine you can store as much data on a single CD as
possible. This is an ideal solution for backup systems providing the lowest
$/megabyte of data ratio.
StarBurn can create Video CD (VCD) and Super Video CD (SVCD) mastering.
Just point to the MPEG-1/MPEG-2 file you want to burn.
Full software EDC/ECC error checking and correction engine implemented.
Allowing you to proceed with Disc-At-Once burning and allows fast bad
sectors skipping when grabbing damaged or copy-protected CD/DVD
media.
1:1 copy of single session data CDs (99% of the titles available on the
market) is supported. This includes bad sectors support (fast skipping when
creating image and making them appear back on recorded media) and
"weak" sector amplifying (if your hardware does not survive after crazy
pattern processing).
CSS-protected DVD-Video backups are possible. You can either store an
entire DVD image as encrypted (you'll need an application such as Alcohol
120% to mount it and watch it on your PC) or you can apply automatic
decryption on-the-fly. In such a case you'd be able to mount the resulting
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ISO image with StarBurn built-in DVD emulator and also burn it to DVD
recordable media to create a backup copy of the original movie.
1GB padding for DVD-Video burning modes done automatically. It's up to
StarBurn SDK and not up to a particular DVD burner whether the final DVDVideo compilation is padded or not. StarBurn always creates compatible
DVDs.
StarBurn SDK comes with a redistributable set of 32-bit and 64-bit drivers
making I/O operations possible without Administrator rights.
Very small installation footprint.
Built-in advanced logging system makes remote issue solving easier. With
StarBurn SDK you don't need to fill bug report forms and write down long
and painful e-mails with the list of actions you've performed to put
application down. You just forward us StarBurn debug log and it's our
support staff responsibility to interpret it, pinpoint the problem and either
fix or workaround it.
StarBurn can do verification of recorded CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD media.
Disc quality would be checked and reported immediately after the burn
process completes.
StarBurn SDK comes with re-distributable SPTD (SCSI Pass-Through Direct)
layer allowing your applications to have 100% safe and exclusive control
over physical burning hardware. No SCSI filter driver or other burning
application will result your burning process interruption and coaster finally!

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SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
StarBurn SDK is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows Me (Millennium Edition), Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2,
Windows 7, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
are supported.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows 98
800 MHz Intel Pentium III class processor
512 MB of RAM
200 MB of disk space for StarBurn application data
CD or DVD burner
Recommended System Requirements:
Windows 8.1
Dualcore CPU 2 x 1,5 GHz
4 GB of RAM
1 GB of disk space for StarBurn application data and log files
Blu-Ray or HD-DVD burner

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CONTACTS
General questions:

info@starburnsoftware.com

Registration issues:

sales@starburnsoftware.com

Customers support:

support@starburnsoftware.com

Support forum:

www.starburnsoftware.com/forum

Support FAQ:

www.starburnsoftware.com/faq.html

Web site:

webmaster@starburnsoftware.com

Phone:

+1-888-53-222-03, +38-067-53-222-33, +38-067-53-222-53

Fax:

+1-888-53-222-03

Rocket Division Software LTD

P.O. BOX 3321, Drake Chambers, Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands
www.starburnsoftware.com

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